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Intel’s Ultrabook band is accomplishing appealing able-bodied for them, but the MacBook Air duplicate could do better. The barrage of Windows 8 creates an agitative befalling for the brand. The PC is aback in the spotlight, and Intel aims to capitalize on that drive in the advancing year.

Netbook Account met with the VP of Intel’s Architecture Group, Navin Shenoy, afore the Ultrabook Symposium started beforehand this week. He appear some absorbing things about the Ultrabook cast that ability get some bodies appealing aflame including a touch-screen enabled Ultrabook congenital abnormally
for Windows 8.

The agitative account from Shenoy is that Intel is acknowledging Windows 8 in a big way. There will be 40 Ultrabooks that abutment Windows 8 and they will all be absolution in Q4. What’s alike bigger is that these Ultrabooks will accept touchscreens to absolutely booty advantage of the touch-centric Windows 8 operating system.

Including the 40 Windows 8 machines advancing out this year, Shenoy says that there are now 140 Ultrabook designs. Amazingly enough, alone 35 of those designs accept accomplished the accessible so far. With 105 designs not out yet, Intel has a adventitious to advance out added different designs that address to every blazon of consumer. The barrage of Windows 8 will absolve 40 added designs, but I’m absorbed in seeing what added secrets the Ultrabook band is hiding.

Intel will assuredly be competitively appraisement the Ultrabook. The aboriginal beachcomber of Ultrabooks were in the $900 ambit and that’s ridiculous, alike by MacBook Air standards. The abutting beachcomber of Ultrabooks, hitting abutting month, will mostly be beneath the actual affordable $700 amount range.

What may advice accord to that amount bead is Intel’s next-generation processor, codenamed Haswell. Borrowing from the system-on-a-chip technology that admiral smartphones and tablets, Haswell will be the aboriginal SoC processor for PCs. If aggregate goes according to plan, that agency a added activity efficient, and hopefully cheaper, Ultrabook is on the horizon.

New Ultrabooks accompanying with the barrage of Windows 8 has a lot of abeyant for Intel. They’re authoritative a bet and it could pay off handsomely. On the added hand, Windows 8 could be a adversity and the Ultrabook band could booty a massive hit for advancing out too aboriginal on the ambiguous OS. It will be absorbing to watch how the bazaar reacts to Windows 8 and Ultrabooks appear October and November.